Trump is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to blackmail and extortion.

Every entity and everyone should do a risk assessment.

Trump believes all of the US, money and resources belong to him.
People must pay for the privilege of living or doing business in the US.
Pay Trump directly or face consequences.

why personal assets - 401Ks, retirement funds, insurance policies - are exempt. Congress can levy a tax on anything.

Nothing would surprise me.

Money in circulation and the velocity of money are being bone-dried and vacuumed off. Our standards of living will fall for decades and remain there.

I was thinking the same thing, our standard of living is going to plummet.

Will anything be restored?

I just want to wake up from this ridiculously mean stupid nightmare.

Big factories have lots of parts. The companies who manufacture those parts send their process engineers to the factory site to make sure their companies parts are properly and effectively integrated into the whole that will eventually be a functioning factory. Parts made in Korea will be accompanied by Korean engineers, parts made in Brazil will be accompanied by Brazilian engineers, parts made in Germany by German engineers ... .

This is how global manufacturing works. Seems pretty obvious -- but apparently not to MAGA brained folks.

Any accountability, anyone ?

fraudulent credentials. If that's the case they should be prosecuted.

It'd certainly be a costly move, but with all that is going on, so might staying.

This is the extortion part of crony capitalism. Nice business you've got there. Would be a shame if Jabba the Hut was turned loose on it like what happened at that Hyundai plant.

Supposedly they spent months preparing for the Hyundai visit. So they allowed the "illegal" activity to continue for months just to make a spectacle.

There still hasn't been a good explanation of what Hyundai did wrong and why they went after workers instead of management.

Never happen

Of the approx 300 Koreans who were hassled by ICE they were engineers, construction managers, or specialized construction workers who were building a factory to employ hundreds. They were all in the US on special 90-day work visas - nothing illegal about them. About a dozen of those arrested were senior people from Hyundai in the US to check progress of construction.

And now they are going to do the same thing to other foreign manufacturers. Will not be long before foreign companies declare piss on this, we are not building factories in the US

Were they here legally or not?

My god what a tool. Short-sighted doesn't even begin to cover it. Not that he cares, he'll be dead within five years (or so I fervently hope)

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flying fuck about employee salaries or being overworked.

They just want to do all that same shit to "real" American workers instead.

Good cover for the cruelty

Hyundai paid up - big time